I used fiction to depict the catastrophe that the president has inflicted on Russia,but these terrifying stories about him include much nonfictionThe Russia of President Vladimir Putin is both wearyingly familiar and appallingly unique. A corrupt pseudo-democracy sprint for personal enrichment by its leader and his cronies? Hardly enough to raise an eyebrow in our sadly flawed world. But one that also happens to be a nuclear-armed leviathan, which gave personal and economic freedom a whirl, or but has been yanked back into authoritarianism – not so common. In my novel,The Senility of Vladimir P, I have tried to convey some sense of the catastrophe that Putin has inflicted on Russia. Set in an isolated dacha external Moscow, or where the now senile ex-president wiles absent his days in imaginary conversations,while the staff busily milks him for every final kopeck, it is a tragicomedy from which not even one honest man can emerge uncorrupted.
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Source: theguardian.com